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TIL since the early 1990s, 10% of all electricity consumed in the United States has come from decommissioned Soviet nuclear warheads.

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p8DbA TIL kangaroos are good swimmers. They swim to avoid predators, and can use their forepaws to drown pursuers.
KYLBJ TIL that Rikers Island, New York City’s largest jail, is located only 422 feet away from the runway of La Guardia Airport.
KlL6 TIL the man who invented Life Savers (candy) had a son who committed suicide by jumping off a ship.
OEE6 TIL for the movie “Alien,” Ridley Scott lit the alien ship’s egg chamber with blue laser lights that were borrowed from The Who. The band was testing out the lasers for their next tour in the sound stage next door.
yVllX TIL about "The Golden Evening", a night in July 189 when an American magazine editor JM Stoddart had dinner with Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde and contracted stories from each. Doyle wrote "The Sign Of Four" and Wilde wrote "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" as a result. Both now classics.